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Caterpillar Inc (CAT): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Winner

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Caterpillar (
CAT) pushed the Industrial Goods sector higher today making it today's featured industrial goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 1.8%. By the end of trading, Caterpillar rose $2.84 (3.4%) to $87.65 on average volume. Throughout the day, 8.5 million shares of Caterpillar exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $85-$87.86 after having opened the day at $85.30 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $84.81. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that increased today were:
China Advanced Construction Materials Group (
CADC), up 63%,
Wowjoint Holdings (
BWOW), up 24.2%,
Altair Nanotechnologies (
ALTI), up 14.9%, and
Real Goods Solar (
RSOL), up 13.7%.

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Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives worldwide. Caterpillar has a market cap of $55.04 billion and is part of the conglomerates industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.6, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Caterpillar a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Caterpillar as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.